Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, 22, petite, doe-eyed daughter of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of assassinated President Diem, who just before the 1963 coup accompanied her mother on that famous U.S. speaking tour during which she captured her own share of attention with her fetching ao-dai, later moved to Paris while Mme. Nhu set tled in Italy; of injuries in an auto collision; in Longjumeau, France...
...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...
Howard Cutler had nice moments as Romelio, the moneygrubbing pushy brother. He was properly incestuous with his sister and properly encouraging to her suitors. But Romelio is a cynic. He thinks omnipotent dieties don't exist and the aristocracy is a lot of malarkey. The power that operates in the world is a person with money. So he's up tight: if his money disappears, he does too. Cutler's movements onstage didn't convey that anxiety. They had a student looseness that suggested--Every-thing's OK, baby...
Marianne DeKoven (Romelio's sister) didn't burn her bridges and she should have. She played her love scene with little ardor because she knew she'd wind up at the end with a different partner. Her hesitancy only spoils the scene. It didn't make her marriage seem reasonable. James Shuman (Contarino) played the scene with more ardor...
...real irony was the walkout itself, which had now spread to 18,000 AFTRA members and roughly 1,500 supporters from sister unions. That was a lot of muscle flexing, considering that the contract dispute involved a mere 300 announcers and newsmen from the three networks' outlets in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. For the reporters, AFTRA was asking a $325-a-week guaranteed salary plus at least 50% of the fees earned for sponsored appearances; the networks were offering $300 and 25%. For the announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within...